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It was meant to
be a romantic getaway for Randy and
James, but when James asks his friend to come along
for the trip, Randy decides to bring her friend Jane
as well. After a long days drive and picking up a
hitcher by the road, the friends decide to spend the
night at a small private barbecue place run by a very
lonely guy. But there's a reason why he's lonely...
and that is the same reason as why his barbecue tastes
so different from everyone else’s.
She walks, she crawls, she even jogs a little, but do
we get to see Jane run? Nope. When the movie can't even
deliver what the title promises, you know that it's
not a great film. But the truth be told, if it hadn't
been for that one major flaw, See Jane Run wouldn't
have been all that bad. The fact that I was just waiting
to see her run, in vain, was bugging the hell out of
me though and the ending was just ridiculously bad.
Other than that, See Jane Run turned out to be
surprisingly decent, if not a bit slow-paced and
occasionally tedious. See, it takes almost an hour
before things start to happen in this flick. And the
movie is only 85 minutes long. So that's 25 minutes of
horror and 60 minutes of building up the story and
characters. This is another big problem that the movie has.
None of the characters are likeable and Jane is so
awkward and silent that you simply can't root for her,
especially since you don't know why she acts the way
she does. There's even a moment in this film where
you think that Jane may be the killer - that's how
weird she is - and she's the main character! The story
is fairly basic as well where a bunch of friends on a
road trip find themselves kidnapped and tortured by a
madman who loves to make hamburgers out of human meat.
Oh come on, I didn't just spoil it for you, you could
see this coming from miles away when one of the
characters said that his barbecue had a very different
flavour. See Jane Run isn't the low-budget horror flick
that you expect it to be though.
When the movie opened with Joe Estevez I thought that
this would be an ultra cheap horror flick with no
qualities what-so-ever, but that's not completely true.
The movie is nicely shot and the director sure knows
how to make the movie look more expensive than it
probably actually was. The fact that I also stayed
interested in the slow-paced parts was also pretty
impressive. Ultimately, See Jane Run had the potential
to be a decent DTV horror-flick, obviously inspired
by the recent torture porn trend. But we don't get
to see Jane run, and I'm still pissed off about that.
Even when it was really time for her to run, she
takes one leap and then decides to walk instead.
Most of the gore is obviously made with CGI graphics,
and not very good ones. We get a head split in half,
an impalement, a slit throat and a lot of blood. It
does however give you the impression that it's quite
gory though as the blood is used very efficiently.
Very subtle score that stays in the background through
and through. Felt very appropriate for the concept.
If you want to see Jane run, you'll be disappointed as
you won't get to see Jane run in this film. You'll get
to see her do a lot of things... well... maybe not a
lot of things, but you get to see her sit on a chair
at least, but you never get to see her run. It's better
than I had expected it to be but it's still not a
good movie, only a watchable one.
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